'Mesa Yellow' Gaillardia

‘Mesa Yellow’ Gaillardia

‘Mesa Yellow’ Gaillardia

This is a 2010 Fleuroselect Gold Medal Winner and an All American Selection for good reason! The flowers are 3 inches across with butter cone centers with overlapping yellow petals. Compact and tidy, this selection will not get floppy and fall over. It has a longer bloom season with more blooms than the species. Perfect for the cut flower garden, mixed perennial bed and even containers. It will bloom this year. Drought tolerant once established.

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Did you know the name gaillardia comes from the 18th century French Magistrate M. Gaillard de Charentonneau who was a patron of French botany? The common name for gaillardia is Blanket Flower, so named after the colorful blankets made by Native Americans. Gaillardia are native to the Great Plains.

Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:

These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these.

These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care.

These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death.